retort的词源
英文词源
- retort
- retort: see torment
- retort (v.)
- 1550s, "make return in kind" (especially of an injury), from Old French retort and directly from Latin retortus, past participle of retorquere "turn back, twist back, throw back," from re- "back" (see re-) + torquere "to twist" (see torque (n.)). Applied to exchanges of jest or sarcasm by c. 1600, hence "say or utter sharply and aggressively in reply" (1620s). Related: Retorted; retorting.
- retort (n.1)
- "act of retorting," c. 1600, from retort (v.).
- retort (n.2)
- "vessel used in chemistry for distilling or effecting decomposition by the aid of heat," c. 1600, from Middle French retorte, from Medieval Latin *retorta "a retort, a vessel with a bent neck," literally "a thing bent or twisted," from past participle stem of Latin retorquere (see retort (v.)).
中文词源
词根词缀： re-回 + -tort-扭,拧 → 扭转回来
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：retort 词源，retort 含义。
re-,相对，相反，-tort,弯，转，词源同 torture,turn.引申词义回应，反驳。
re-,相对，相反，-tort,弯，转，词源同 torture,turn.引申词义回应，反驳。
